For "A Candle Burned," Jerry Guibor interviewed friends of his who were born into Soviet oppression and survived those terrible times to find out there is a living God who loves them. Others stubbornly cling to their atheistic upbringings. Nevertheless, their stories are just as compelling.

Here is how a feature in TIME magazine described Retreat From Rostov:
The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes,
heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign
correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn
out every fuse in Hollywood.
This epic World War II novel was inspired by the first battle in which Hitler's armies suffered defeat.

Here is how a feature in TIME magazine described Retreat From Rostov: The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood. This epic World War II novel was inspired by the first battle in which Hitler's armies suffered defeat.

Here is how a feature in TIME Magazine described Retreat From Rostov: The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood. This epic World War II novel was inspired by the first battle in which Hitler's armies suffered defeat